well, i tried

so i have a very firmly established policy re: talking in class. i will NOT talk about class things. you know, like the law, or the case, or hypotheticals. but i will make inane remarks and random chit chat with professors, before, during and after class. and i am very proud of today's efforts. better even than the time i when GRob said TN wouldn't be in Comm Law that day and i said, "oh, well then" and got up and started walking out of class. that was funny. today, i asked a professor to cancel class. the class we were sitting in at the time.

here is all the evidence:

• we had a draft of our paper due today.
• we were supposed to have guest speakers. fun guest speakers we have been waiting all semester to hear from. they were not going to talk about today's assigned reading topic, but about all sorts of different things.
• most people do not ever read, but with these two factors combined, a pre-class survey established that at least 10 of the 12 people there had not read.
• it is the day before t-giv break starts.
• TH was about 2 minutes late and there had been pre-class discussion about the 5 minute rule and the possibility that he would walk in and cancel class.

well when he came in w/o guests, and explained that they would not be able to make it (and about how we would reschedule a non-mandatory make-up class b/c these guys have awesome stories, and which most of us will opt to go to), i knew that no one else was going to step up to the plate. this is the sort of thing only i do. people were egging me on with their eyes. so i asked him if we could cancel class. totally seriously.

and i really think he was tempted. alas. he made some sort of joke about knowing we were all prepared to discuss sentencing guidelines, to which i replied something about how i had come to class "prepared to hear fun stories."

well, i tried.